Respect yourself, protect yourself
Subtitle: Latina girls and sexual identity
By: Lorena Garcia
Series: Intersections
Publisher: New York University
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780814733165; 9780814733172; 9780814733189; 9780814769911
Subjects: Self-perception in adolescence; Hispanic American teenage girls; Gender identity; Psychology; Sex instruction for girls
Description: "While Latina girls have high teen birth rates and are at increasing risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections, their sexual lives are much more complex than the negative stereotypes of them as "helpless" or "risky" (or worse) suggest. In this book the author examines how Latina girls negotiate their emerging sexual identities and attempt to create positive sexual experiences for themselves. Through a focus on their sexual agency, the author demonstrates that Latina girls' experiences with sexism, racism, homophobia and socioeconomic marginality inform how they engage and begin to rework their meanings and processes of gender and sexuality, emphasizing how Latina youth themselves understand their sexuality, particularly how they conceptualize and approach sexual safety and pleasure. At a time of controversy over the appropriate role of sex education in schools, this book provides a rare look and an important understanding of the sexual lives of a traditionally marginalized group."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments viii; title: Introduction : studying the "other" girls; title: "She's old school like that" : mother and daughter sex talks; title: The sexual (mis)education of Latina girls; title: "Handlin" your business? : sexual respectability and peers; title: Playing Lil' games : partners and safe-sex strategies; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix A: Profile of research participants; title: Appendix B: Methodological notes; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.